In Santa Fe, over the course of four days filled with fashion, panels, and parties, Native Fashion Week opened at the Santa ...

A young girl stands on a road, with trees and buildings behind her. She’s wearing a formal dress with dozens of elk teeth sewn into the fabric. Her expression is light. She closes her eyes and ...

Many of them wore red clothing and used red face paint ... According to the Department of Justice, Native American women face murder rates that are ten times the national average.

Honoring the work to respond to Murdered Missing Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR ... Interior’s Indian Affairs staff, American Indian and Alaska Native people are at a disproportionate ...

Many Native American tribes used them in clothing, jewelry and sacred traditions ... Longer shells held more value. Blackfeet and Lakota women layered strands of dentalium over buckskin dresses. Some ...

A woman is dressed in traditional Native American clothing and backed up against ... the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. “I think within the Native community, we understand ...

Their skirts are strung with dog tags ... us,” says Natalie Holt Breen (Abenaki), board member of the Native American Women Warriors (NAWW) and participant in the Folklife Festival.

Officials in California are working to remove a racist term towards Native American women in more than 30 locations in California, according to the state Natural Resources Agency. The removal of ...

Native Americans are speaking out decades later ... the children to take on English names and give up their style of clothing and hair, as well as their traditional languages, religions and ...

Christian Women’s Connection will host a buffet ... past to life as a model and actor who wears period-correct Native American clothing in his appearances. Thomas will be sharing artifacts ...